Proximity Queries with NEAR and NEAR_ACCUM Operators

You can search for terms that are near to one another in a document with the NEAR operator.

For example, to find all the documents where dog is within 6 words of cat, enter the following query:

'near((dog, cat), 6)'

The NEAR_ACCUM operator combines the functionality of the NEAR operator with that of the ACCUM operator. Like NEAR, it returns terms that are within a given proximity of each other; however, if one term is not found, it ranks documents according to the frequency of the occurrence of the term that is found.

See Also:

Oracle Text Reference for more information about using the NEAR and NEAR_ACCUM operators